2 papers
cs.CL2025
Variational Reasoning for Language Models
Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Haonan Wang +5
We introduce a variational reasoning framework for language models that treats thinking traces as latent variables and optimizes them through variational inference. Starting from t…
cs.CL2025
A Survey on Latent Reasoning
Rui-Jie Zhu, Tianhao Peng, Tianhao Cheng +30
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, especially when guided by explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that verbalizes intermediate s…